Lucid speaking

I heard a word today that I haven't used in a long time, so I came to work and immediately used it.

Lucid--means clear in thought, and comes from Latin, luc which means light.

That being said, I will now look it up. I also like to put it in my MSN thesaurus to get synonyms and hopefully an antonym, too!

I love words!

small words

I haven't written about small words recently. But 2 monosyllabic words I've come across this weekend are:

Hoist and Throb.

Hoist is a verb, not heard very often, except if you sail...? Hoist the sails!

Throb is not a very popular word, but I have read it in Deepak Chopra and in Christiane Northrups books recently. They both use it a verb, not the more familiar adjective form, as in "throbbing pain."

Definitions and etymology will be added later.

Handsome Thoughts

Why do we say "Handsome?"

Does it have anything to do with hands?

just pondering...